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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Liza laughingly compares the author to which historical figure once he announces that he will opt for local anesthesia?
(a) Stalin.
(b) Joan of Arc.
(c) Patton.
(d) Napoleon.

2. Noor tells the unnamed narrator that her late father had shared a "strong sense" of what kind of "identity" (99) with her?
(a) Iranian.
(b) Chilean.
(c) Lebanese.
(d) Cuban.

3. Which creature is the focus of the book the unnamed narrator and Roberto plan to write together?
(a) The Yeti.
(b) The brontosaurus.
(c) The Loch Ness monster.
(d) The unicorn.

4. In what year did the tragedy discussed by the unnamed narrator at the literary event occur?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1991.

5. What color is the chair at Mount Sinai Hospital that has "the immediate effect of making" the unnamed narrator "feel ungainly, gangly in [his] paper gown" (5)?
(a) Red.
(b) Blue.
(c) Green.
(d) Yellow.

Short Answer Questions

1. At which grocery store does Alex insist on meeting the unnamed narrator so that she can buy a special kind of tea?

2. Just after a photograph of an astronaut is presented in Part One, the narrator says that "an unusually large cyclonic system with a warm core was approaching" (16) what location?

3. Alena recently acquired a great deal of what type of art?

4. The unnamed narrator remarks in Part One that the movie Back to the Future was a movie of what type from his youth?

5. In what magazine was the section of the text entitled Part Two: The Golden Vanity originally published as a short story?

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